The Soviet legacy and recent impact of globalization has led feminist scholars and regional analysts to consider Kazakhstan to be a new domain for understanding the relationship between gender and development. The dissertation demonstrates how Kazakhstan's Soviet past, globalize…
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This dissertation analyzes the public debate in Kazakhstan on the government's ethnic return migration policy. Ethnic return migrations are prone to create public debates because they privilege one ethnic group over another or others. The implications of ethnic migration policie…
This dissertation shows how market reforms can inadvertently foster constituencies within the ruling coalition who are willing to publicly oppose post-Soviet autocrats. In two cases of market reforming autocracies, Kazakhstan in Kyrgyzstan, defectors from the business elite have…
While economic explanations for the "resource curse" are well established, the political factors explaining why governments fail to take corrective action remain poorly understood. Research has shown that if governments save oil profits abroad and slowly re-introduce the oil-gen…
In this thesis, I examine associations between measures of intimate partner violence and sexual behaviors, particularly behaviors that increase the risk of infection with HIV or another sexually transmitted infection (STI), including failing to use condoms, having multiple sexua…
What does it mean for a "people" to have a potential voice in a political environment of authoritarian repression? Here I look specifically at the cultural production and performance of improvisational poetry as a form of "folklore" within the context of retraditionalization in …
This dissertation surveys Korean Baptist missionaries' work in Kazakhstan and recommends some effective strategies for twenty-first-century missions for Korean missionaries. The writer presents major emerging issues in world evangelization and explains the need for the study in …
Following the collapse of the Soviet system, clan and faction networking has gained considerable attention in Central Asia. This research project explores the extent to which social group identity, specifically clan identity, shapes people's political preferences leading them to…
The penetrated political system theory has been applied to small states and the Middle East region in order to explain the effects that global powers have had on these countries. Various scholars of the penetrated political system theory argued that this theory could not apply t…
As part of the INTAS funded CLIMAN project into Holocene climatic variability and the evolution of human settlement in the Aral Sea basin, fossil diatoms obtained from Chernyshov Bay in the Aral Sea have been examined in order to reconstruct conductivity and lake level change si…
This thesis looks at competing influences in Central Asia since 1991. It looks at all five Central Asian countries, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan, and identifies the three main powers with competing influences as Russia, Islam and America. It ai…
After the demise of the Soviet Union, six of the newly independent states were of Islamic background: Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tadjikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Azerbaijan, Five of these six are in Central Asia, with Azerbaijan being in the Caucuses region. Specifically …
This dissertation employs qualitative and quantitative methods to examine the relationship between religion and sexual HIV risk among 1,342 male migrant workers from Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan, employed in Baraholka Market, located in Almaty, Kazakhstan. …
This dissertation examines the diversity of Islamic literature in Kazakhstan and interpretations of that literature, focusing on bestselling Islamic books. I argue that the majority of Islamic publishing and book distribution in Kazakhstan is controlled by members of the piety m…
"Credible statistical information can serve as a powerful tool for the Republic of Kazakhstan to plan for, and monitor progress on, its transition to a green economy. While available data by Kazakhstan's Committee on Statistics already provide some useful information (e.g. inves…
"Credible statistical information can serve as a powerful tool for the Republic of Kazakhstan to plan for, and monitor progress on, its transition to a green economy. While available data by Kazakhstan's Committee on Statistics already provide some useful information (e.g. inves…
Kazakhstan has recorded impressive economic growth rates since its independence, driven mainly by export of commodities and high rate of energy use. These rates are not sustainable and are generating significant air pollution, in particular from industrial stationary sources. Th…
Kazakhstan has recorded impressive economic growth rates since its independence, driven mainly by export of commodities and high rate of energy use. These rates are not sustainable and are generating significant air pollution, in particular from industrial stationary sources. Th…
